Notes and drafts on Alasia IClaude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer

Alasia I p. 506 The cult (2)of in situ (1) of the of the god of the ingot, patron of the miners and smelters of Cyprus. § 3. Identification. The statuette height of 35 cm. in solid bronze (2) covered with a fine light green patina which seems to indicate a rich alloy en cuivre (2), la statuette figure un dieu wearing a conical helmet with horns fitted with a pair of curved horns curved and a a frontal cut descending to a point and and descending pointed (3) towards the root of the nose (3). He has the cheeks carefully shaved while His physiognomy is characterised by a straight, prominent and pointed nose and by large of almond-shaped eyes. A A short beard in a collar carefully shaved (see below, p ....)

(3) At the moment of discovery the point fine and sharp of the horn left was intact, but the metal But owing to the state of extremely corroded of the metal, it crumbled rapidly over a few millimetres<s> about two millimetres/ even before the first o only with a fine brush could be applied in situ (and that some layers of ...... could be applied in situ with a brush fine.

("Gods of the North and Island Peoples in Cyprus).

(2) When the operations works of conservation of the statuette have been completed at the laboratory of the Nicosia Museum, we hope, with the agreement of the director of the Service of Antiquities of Cyprus, Mr V. Karageorgis, to be able to have carried out an analysis of the metal.

, written sideways: of excavations of the French Archaeological Mission at Enkomi-Alasia, in Cyprus) and in(1) See our our preliminary reports entitled Götter der Nord- und in Syria, XLI, 1964, pp. 179 to 181 (The XVI Campaign Inselvölker in Zypern in Archiv für Orientforschung, XXI, 196., p. 61. On figure 4 of this report (p 62), the floor on which stood upright the statuette of the god bears, through the draughtsman's error, the number II, whereas it was floor III (counting from the present surface of the site), cf. here fig. .....